COPENHAGEN — Denmark said Saturday it would scrap a fat tax it introduced a little over a year ago in a world first, saying the measure was costly and failed to change Danes' eating habits.
"The fat tax and the extension of the chocolate tax -- the so-called sugar tax -- has been criticised for increasing prices for consumers, increasing companies' administrative costs and putting Danish jobs at risk," the Danish tax ministry said in a statement.
"At the same time it is believed that the fat tax has, to a lesser extent, contributed to Danes travelling across the border to make purchases," it added.
...Denmark's Confederation of Industries has described as a bureaucratic nightmare for producers and outlets.
AFP: Denmark to scrap world's first fat tax
Translation:
1. Tax increases costs jobs. Think Obama and his taxing the wealthy (job creators), ObamaKare.
2. The nightmare of Red tape kills jobs by increasing costs.
3. Related to businesses... they will move when facing a hostile environment where it makes competing difficult.
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What was that you said about being wrong all the time?Denmark has a 4.8 unemployment rate and an average tax rate of 40% compared to ours of under 30%. How does being wrong all the time feel?
Denmark has a 4.8 unemployment rate and an average tax rate of 40% compared to ours of under 30%. How does being wrong all the time feel?
As for the fat tax.. the idea is great, but the way it was implemented had too many unwanted consequences…
As for the fat tax.. the idea is great, but the way it was implemented had too many unwanted consequences.... it was simply too complicated...
I suppose my source was wrong but apparently so was yours. 6.3% offical is what I'm going with now. Still, a silly fat tax isn't what holds Denmark back.
Nice but you live in unemployed Spain. Now tell us about that. Yeah.....I'm waiting.opcorn:
Consumer demand does not create jobs. It makes a void in the marketplace that someone has to figure out how to fill. There is a demand in the US for vacations on the Moon; however no one can do it for the right price. If the price were 10k per person to vacation on the moon, you can bet your bottom dollar people will be vacationing on the moon. It takes an entrepreneur to develop the product or service for the consumers. His risk will create at least one job if not many. Business owners create jobs.my hired hand had a bum tooth so I took him to my dentist. I pay cash so I get a discount, however I watched the office ladies open insurance mail, doing the billing and moaning over the mess it was to bill out to so many companies with their different formats.
All of that is to say it appears to me redtape CREATES jobs, least ways the much vaunted private sector redtape does.
Am wondering how long and how many citizens will continue with the parasite nation whine.
Next the rich and or business owners are not job creators- consumer demand does that. If a business owner was making money hand over fist but there was no increase in demand- do you really think he would be wise or prudent to hire on more people just because his profit is increasing?
Or buy another vacation home...eace
Wrong-
we are a consumer driven economy. If not one guy who can talk a bank or group of private investors into bankrolling his idea then there will be another. Few 'businessmen' put their cash on the line- hence the huge panty wad over solar companies getting loans.
But without the demand the 'Job Creator' creates no jobs. If the 'Job Creator' can make more money playing the market vs hiring more people to make more buggy whips... he creates no new jobs.
You acknowledged consumer demand must exist PRIOR to any 'Job Creator' making a move yet refuse to see the demand MUST exist prior to any job being created.
You are correct, we are a consumer driven economy.Wrong-
we are a consumer driven economy.
You are wrong...small businesses (the majority of the employment force) have their money on the line. Not the banks, their own.If not one guy who can talk a bank or group of private investors into bankrolling his idea then there will be another. Few 'businessmen' put their cash on the line- hence the huge panty wad over solar companies getting loans.
Wrong again. The idea that “playing the market” doesn’t create jobs is absurd. Investing in the market is the same as investing in the economy. The companies who are in the stock market sold off portions of their company to develop and expand. That creates jobs. Investing is a job creating action. Your analogy for buggy whips is also wrong. In your own statement you said our economy is consumer driven. Consumer’s do not want buggy whips for any price therefore no one would create a job making them. It would be the same as me employing someone to measure stop signs. No one wants the information or service, so why would you create the job?But without the demand the 'Job Creator' creates no jobs. If the 'Job Creator' can make more money playing the market vs hiring more people to make more buggy whips... he creates no new jobs.
I did not say consumer demand must exist to get a job creator to create a job. Some job creators make something the market never knew they wanted. The iPad, the home computer, and 20,000 other devices and services. They create the demand. That makes jobs.You acknowledged consumer demand must exist PRIOR to any 'Job Creator' making a move yet refuse to see the demand MUST exist prior to any job being created.
Red tape does create jobs. Jobs that the consumer has to pay for. The dentist has all that extra insurance paperwork to do so he hires another assistant. To cover the cost of the assistant's salary, he raises his prices so that none of the extra cost comes out of his pocket. In the end, consumers pay the bill for most every piece of red tape, new laws and new regulations. It is all pushed down hill until it hits us. Hey, we asked for it and we got it!
I suppose my source was wrong but apparently so was yours. 6.3% offical is what I'm going with now. Still, a silly fat tax isn't what holds Denmark back.
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